Ohio History Journal

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUS-

TEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEO-

LOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

 

SOCIETY BUILDING, COLUMBUS, OHIO,

SATURDAY, May 4, 1929.

Present: Messrs. W. O. Thompson, Arthur C. Johnson,

George Florence, George F. Bareis, E. F. Wood, Claude Meeker,

F. C. Furniss, Mrs. Orson D. Dryer, and Trustee Emeritus B.

F. Prince.

Secretary Galbreath and Director Shetrone were also present.

President Johnson: What is the pleasure of the

Board in the matter of the election of officers?

Doctor W. O. Thompson: "I move that the Secre-

tary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Board for the

existing officers as their own successors.

Mr. Meeker seconded the motion, which was unani-

mously carried.

The Secretary cast the ballot of the Board for the

present officers, who were declared duly elected as their

own successors.

Mr. Wood: I wish to nominate all members of the

present staff employed by the Society in its various divi-

sions, at the salaries that have been designated by the

General Assembly of the state, with one change which I

wish to explain to the Board. For a great many years

the Board has paid the present Treasurer an annual

salary. We have just put into effect-we have been

coming to it gradually, but it has just been put into com-

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plete effect-a centralization; a completion, I will say, of

an organization, and the entire work and direction is

now under the Director. The books of the Society are

now being kept up here, and vouchers on the State Au-

ditor are prepared here instead of in the office of the

Treasurer as in the past twenty-five or thirty years.

President Johnson: You approve the change?

Mr. Wood: I believe I made the suggestion origin-

ally. The plan went into effect May 1st, and the com-

pensation heretofore paid to the Treasurer is now paid

to a member of the staff doing that work. I would like

to nominate Mr. Oscar F. Miller-who has heretofore

been bookkeeper-as Assistant Treasurer, and all of the

other members of the staff heretofore employed or at

present employed.

President Johnson explained that Mr. Lindley, al-

ready designated for employment, is included in the list

of employes under the motion.

Mr. Meeker seconded the motion, which was unan-

imously carried.

Doctor Thompson mentioned the proposed memorial

to Doctor William C. Mills, and the question of coopera-

tion with the Cleveland Society referred to in the Presi-

dent's address in the meeting of the Society, and asked

whether motions were in order.   President Johnson

stated that it was his intention to refer the questions to

the staff of the Society, with instructions to prepare a

report to be submitted at a future meeting of the Board.

On motion, duly seconded, the meeting adjourned.

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